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I used to really enjoy doing vocal sessions in the recording studio at Lime Grove for shows like The Russ Abbott Show and The Laughter Show to name but two. The Irish guys that ran the bar also did a pint of Guinness so good that I first thought they were bringing in in from Dublin but, no, it was just Park Royal Guinness kept and served correctly.

But this was live on air

12:24 BBC2 goes haywire for a second

tenbys gone down the pan you cannot get a taxi, the railway station is unmanned we are not going again my wifes disabled and the taxi drivers prefer to do a school run rather than help someone who is disabled , dog mess everywhere as they allow dogs everywhere sorry but i tell it as it is

0:50 - I met Denis Murray many times over the years. What a lovely man he was. His voice was so familiar not just to Northern Irish viewers, but also to the rest of us on the national news. A great journalist, in the same way as John Cole was too. Denis is still alive and enjoying retirement aged currently 72.

10:15 - also in 1964 no shops were open on a Sunday in Britain. Only smaller corner shops and newsagents would be open. More draconian was Northern Ireland, where unlike England, no cinemas or bars were allowed open there until the late 1980s. Only in 1994 did Sunday trading for big stores was allowed.

10:15 - This archaic view of Sunday was the reason why both BBC and ITV were regulated to always air a Sunday morning live church service, a lot of adult educational programming and 70 minutes of closed programming from 6.15pm to 7.25pm where only religious programming could air on television. Added to that, the regulation that "general entertainment should not start before 3pm, but 2.30pm at the earliest was allowed. Given the fact that BBC and ITV were allowed just 7.5 hours of general entertainment on a Sunday, these ancient ideas of Sunday was still in force in 1964 Britain.

The telephone on the newsdesk was needed, as in 1964 there wasn't any ear pieces for news presenters to use to connect to the gallery. That would come in during the 1970s.

Now lets see if they can restore the crummy BBC😅.

Very nice advert for VHS machines here.Thank you BBC for not advertising.

"And now for something completely different ". Organ plays chord. "IT'S......!" Ding! (John Philip Souza's "Liberty Bell" plays).

There had been months of advertising, including the use/sale of two 'cartoon' characters - Hullabaloo and Custard. These were a kangaroo (Hullabaloo) with a joey (Custard) in her pouch. Despite this, the BBC got more news coverage for the new channel from its failure to start. BBC was the first national channel to broadcast in 625 lines, rather than the 405 lines that had been used previously so was in a higher definition, although still transmitting in monochrome. One of the programmes planned for the launch evening was a firework display from Southend Pier which, to me, was strange because a colourful display could only be seen in black and white! They just shifted the launch programme schedule to the following evening.

The Beatles have been burgled

4:16 disaster in motion. I wonder if that happened on BBC 1 as well, where someone would pass the paper live during the show.

60 years ago when BBC 2 was launched

Surprised the bespectacled man behind him has not put a sign up saying "Hello Mum"

60 years tomorrow, in fact!!!!

they mentioned just after the audio came on that a bus driver who got sacked for being racist was re-hired that would never happen today

I go there it pongs everywhere u go like

I wonder what year this is.

Missing Noah and Nelly??? The indignity of it all(!)

Speak up a bit, mate, I can't hear you... 😁

BBC and ITV sold many TV shows around the world. I am surprised that not more lost gems have not been recovered. As places like Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and even our close next door neighbour Ireland bought a lot of UK shows to fill their own stations.

Nearly as bad as the opening of RTE2 in Ireland. They were seeing the countdown of the launch of a second channel but the audio was from BBC 2 and some punk rock band on the Old Grey Whistle Test - way to go RTE!

The regions always think they know best 😂

11:23

Apart from the lack of dinner jacket, this absolutely has to be the inspiration for John Cleese's newsreader in Monty Python. The delivery and mannerisms are spot on!

9:43 Nelson Mandela in court 1964!

A good technical comedy LoL

What an absolute gem! Such simple clean professionlism, and so spontaneous. Personally, I would quite happily watch news delivered like this now. All this excessive presentation with massively overpaid presenters is utterly unnecessary. If only the BBC could go back to their core raison d'etre.

Tom, did you say 1933 ?? Great interview!

Of the actual opening night, we only have a few seconds of the beginning, a few seconds of the end and 2.5 minutes of the parody by Rowan Atkinson.

36:37 Paul Holmes

Roger the boat Skipper (Lofty). Played football with him for the Saunders Valve Team. I was on the bench mostly.

do you have a copy of the episode from Blue Peter 13 December 2004 please?

I’m intrigued by what the high speed music was as the tape started. Given me earworm 😊

Lovely place❤

Live from studio A 7:21 Bbc two breakdown due to power failure from television centre for west London 12:03 we go back to programme

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Beware, headphone users. Oscillating left-right-left-right volume focus peaks.

John Snow knew nothing.

Wonderful & well recovered in some places ... lol xxx

2:36. Who’s the guy walking out

48:00 he missed a golden opportunity for a laugh there. Instead of "I politely declined", he should've said "......so I'm seeing her next Tuesday."

The audio is horrible.

"u have to be capable of ignoring all distractions" - no u dont. these bullshit thinking needs to go.

While it's not quite news, I can tell you that it can sometimes be difficult being a sports announcer. I've called play-by-play for ice hockey games in the middle of Canada for about a decade, and it's definitely more difficult then it seems, considering how fast of a sport it is. Also, the games are streamed live, so there's pretty much little to no room for error. In other words, if I mess up, anyone who's watching will hear it.